Sweet Garden Sands

Chapter 246
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Ke Hanxue and Xiao Er were walking on the street. There was no one on the street, and many shops had closed their doors. Obviously, they all sensed that the atmosphere in the town was not right.

Ke Hanxue and Xiao Er had just walked to the street corner when they saw their father driving an ox cart from the other side of the street. His face was also very serious, and the villagers who were waiting for the car also looked anxious.

"Father, where's brother-in-law?" Ke Hanxue asked.

Before Ke Shuisheng could speak, a villager who was waiting for the bus said eagerly, "Your brother-in-law has already pulled a car back. Brother Shuisheng, let's go too."

Seeing that Ke Shuisheng had arrived, Xiaoer said to Ke Hanxue: "Miss Xue'er, go back with your father, I'm leaving."

"Okay, let the shopkeeper close the restaurant when you go back." Ke Hanxue confessed uneasy, the money is endless, and safety comes first.

It's really weird that so many officers and soldiers popped up in this small town for no reason.

Seeing Ke Hanxue getting into the bullock cart, Xiao Er just turned around and was about to leave when a group of officers and soldiers who appeared from nowhere suddenly surrounded them.

The crowd turned pale with fright, and huddled tightly in the car, even Ke Shuisheng's face turned blue with fright, they were ordinary people, who had never seen such a battle before, and they were all trembling with fright.

Although Ke Hanxue was also afraid, she looked at the officers and soldiers calmly, thinking to herself, wouldn't the officers and soldiers of this dynasty arrest people for no reason?

Among the crowd, the waiter from the restaurant was calmer. He swallowed his breath, forced a flattering smile, and asked the officers and soldiers, "Master, we are all law-abiding citizens. I don't know, Master..."

"Stop talking nonsense, have you ever seen this person?" The officer in charge interrupted Xiao Er's words with a sullen face, and spread out a half-person-high silk silk with a "swish" sound, allowing everyone to identify the portrait on it .

As soon as they saw the person on the silk, Ke Hanxue and Xiao Er's hearts skipped a beat at the same time, but neither of them showed anything unusual, and the uneasiness in their hearts grew bigger and bigger.

Seeing that everyone was silent, the officer and soldier shouted angrily: "Have you seen it?!"

"No, I haven't seen it!" Xiao Er hurriedly shook her head.

"I really haven't seen it?" The officers and soldiers looked around the faces of everyone with inquiring eyes, and finally fell on Ke Hanxue's face, and asked in a cold voice: "You haven't seen it either?"

Ke Hanxue looked too calm, but it aroused the suspicion of the leading officers and soldiers. This should not be the behavior of a little girl who has never seen the world.

Seeing the officer and soldier staring at his daughter, Ke Shuisheng jumped out of the bullock cart in a panic, ran to the front of the officer and soldier, nodded and bowed to the officer and soldier, and said, "Officer, officer, my daughter is just a country girl, how could she recognize her?" The people in the painting, I beg the officials to show their hands high and let my daughter go! I beg you!"

Ke Shuisheng said tremblingly, and shoved all the copper coins he earned throughout the day into the hands of the leading officer and soldier from his arms.

The officer waved his big hand, and the copper plate in Ke Shuisheng's hand fell to the ground, and he sternly shouted at Ke Shuisheng: "I didn't ask you!"

"You, come from the truth, have you ever seen this person?" The officer pushed Ke Shuisheng away, and shouted at Ke Hanxue angrily.

Ke Hanxue glanced at his father worriedly, and then said to the officer and soldier: "Officer, I have never seen this person before."

"Is this true?" The officer and soldier looked at her suspiciously and threatened, "I warn you, lying will do you no good!"

Seeing this, the waiter in the restaurant guessed the suspicion of the officers and soldiers towards Ke Hanxue, and hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Officer, the person in this picture doesn't look like someone from our town at first glance. This girl belongs to the driver." Daughter, you don’t even come to the town, how can you recognize the person in this painting? If you don’t believe me, you can ask the villagers in the car, they can testify.”

"That's right, that's right, we can testify about this, we all know Miss Xue'er." Although the villagers in the car were scared, they couldn't just watch Ke Hanxue's accident, so they hurriedly spoke up to help testify.

Hearing the words of the crowd, the officer and soldier glanced coldly at the faces of the crowd, forgiving that they would not dare to lie, then he waved his hand and led the group of officers and soldiers away.

As soon as the officers and soldiers left, everyone let go with pale faces, as if they had escaped a catastrophe.

"Miss Xue'er, hurry up and leave." The waiter in the restaurant hurriedly urged.

"Understood. Second brother, you go back and ask the shopkeeper to close the restaurant and pharmacy immediately, everyone leave the restaurant quickly!" Ke Hanxue frowned, feeling faintly uneasy, worried that this matter would involve the restaurant.

Xiaoer also understood the seriousness of the matter, so he ran to the restaurant.

"Xue'er, get in the car!" Ke Shuisheng shouted with lingering fear.

A car of people hadn't recovered from what happened just now because of the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, and no one spoke a word along the way.

After walking for several miles, I met Kong Dafu who wanted to go back to the town to attract people. Ke Shuisheng and Ke Hanxue refused to let him go back.

"Father, if I don't go back, what will the other folks in the town do?" Kong Dafu was in a dilemma.

At this time, a passenger in the car began to persuade: "The folks are not stupid. There are so many officers and soldiers in the town, and they will walk home by themselves. Don't go back and take risks."

Kong Dafu thought for a while, then turned the bullock cart around, and followed Ke Shuisheng back home.

When he got home, Ke Shuisheng told his family what happened in the town, and the whole family was so frightened that their expressions changed.

Ke Mengshi clasped his hands together and said in his mouth: "Ani Tuo Buddha, God bless! Ani Tuo Buddha, God bless!"

"Father, Dafu, this town is not peaceful, so please stop pulling carts for now." Ke Zhong said worriedly.

"I think so too," Ke Shuisheng frowned and said, "I delivered flour to the pier at noon, and saw a lot of official ships docked there, something must have happened in this town."

Ke Shuisheng was afraid just now, so he didn't look at the portrait in the hands of the officer and soldier at all, so he didn't think about the painting when he got home.

But Ke Hanxue saw it clearly. She was uneasy and worried about Ge Yunzhang's restaurant and pharmacy, wondering if the restaurant and pharmacy would be implicated by this?
The whole family fell asleep after eating hastily, but if Ke Hanxue's brows twitched, he couldn't fall asleep.

In the middle of the night, Ke Baosheng also came back. He also heard about the officers and soldiers in the dyeing room, so he walked back all night. When he came back, the whole family was relieved. They only hope that Brother Guang who is far away in the county able to be safe.

Early the next morning, both the second room and the third room came, because they all heard about the officers and soldiers coming to the town, so they came to ask.

After a while, Tongsuo's family and several villagers from the village also came, because Ke Shuisheng and Kong Dafu went to town every day, and the information they got from them was relatively accurate.

(End of this chapter)